Re: Git Gems

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 18, 2011, 04:38 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0n6msuDSLP-rjAw93E_fsi3pdPk8S2W+fjfQr2rFMrhdQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAE1pOi1gyshz_502NQvLNAByfwiYXW2fzA+EnGKz8tuFrCpkxg@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Hilco,

Hilco Wijbenga wrote:

> [CC: Git Users <git@vger.kernel.org>]

For the record, this is the official Git list: both "developers" and "users" hang out here.

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> [...]
> As an example, 'git rebase' didn't really seem useful until I
> understood (well, more or less) what it did. Until then, I just
> naively assumed that merge commits and non-linear history were
> something you simply had to live with. I'm guessing that, like me, a
> lot of people come to Git with quite a few assumptions and
> preconceived notions due to their exposure to other SCM tools. :-(

I'm not sure how a listing is going to help; nevertheless, here are a few of the lesser-known features of the top of my head (in no particular order): rerere, attributes, replace refs, filter-branch, blame's -C and -M switches, log's -S switch, custom diff drivers, bundle, submodule, stash, notes, and reflog. [You can find more by digging through the sources]

Which brings us to an interesting aside: unlike many other SCMs which have a definite and finite set of features, git is really just a toolkit that grows everyday- various people use various subsets and write up their own custom scripts to help them automate tasks. The "git rev-list/ git rev-parse/ git cat-file" is an awesome trio to start writing shell scripts with :)

Cheers.

-- Ram